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Map Unit Description(Brief,Generated)---Washington County,Colorado Sec-5,Twn-5S,Rng-49W <br /> Map Unit Description (Brief, Generated) <br /> The map units delineated on the detailed soil maps in a soil survey represent the <br /> soils or miscellaneous areas in the survey area. The map unit descriptions in this <br /> report, along with the maps, can be used to determine the composition and <br /> properties of a unit. <br /> A map unit delineation on a soil map represents an area dominated by one or more <br /> major kinds of soil or miscellaneous areas. A map unit is identified and named <br /> according to the taxonomic classification of the dominant soils.Within a taxonomic <br /> class there are precisely defined limits for the properties of the soils. On the <br /> landscape, however, the soils are natural phenomena, and they have the <br /> characteristic variability of all natural phenomena. Thus, the range of some <br /> observed properties may extend beyond the limits defined for a taxonomic class. <br /> Areas of soils of a single taxonomic class rarely, if ever, can be mapped without <br /> including areas of other taxonomic classes. Consequently, every map unit is made <br /> up of the soils or miscellaneous areas for which it is named and some minor <br /> components that belong to taxonomic classes other than those of the major soils. <br /> The Map Unit Description (Brief, Generated) report displays a generated <br /> description of the major soils that occur in a map unit. Descriptions of non-soil <br /> (miscellaneous areas) and minor map unit components are not included. This <br /> description is generated from the underlying soil attribute data. <br /> Additional information about the map units described in this report is available in <br /> other Soil Data Mart reports, which give properties of the soils and the limitations, <br /> capabilities, and potentials for many uses.Also,the narratives that accompany the <br /> Soil Data Mart reports define some of the properties included in the map unit <br /> descriptions. <br /> Report—Map Unit Description (Brief, Generated) <br /> Washington County, Colorado <br /> Map Unit: 1—Alda variant fine sandy loam <br /> Component:Alda variant(80%) <br /> USDA Natural Resources Web Soil Survey 9/14/2016 <br /> Conservation Service National Cooperative Sod Survey Page 1 of 8 <br />